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How Capitalism Underdeveloped Black America
Problems in Race, Political Economy, and Society
Manning Marable
Pages: 353Edition: Classics Series, Volume 4
ISBN: 0-89608-579-1
Format: paper
Release Date: 1999-01-01
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How Capitalism Underdeveloped Black America is a classic study of racism and class in the United States. It has become a standard text for courses in American politics and history, and has been central to the education of thousands of political activists since the 1980s, selling more than 30,000 copies in its first edition.
In this updated and significantly expanded edition, Marable examines developments in the political economy of racism in the United States and assesses shifts in the American political terrain since the first edition was published. Marable brilliantly demonstrates how capitalism not only causes socioeconomic injustice, but requires it: "The current economic amnesia of the West is therefore no accident, because it reveals the true roots of massive exploitation and human degradation upon which the current world order rests."
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Table of Contents
Preface How Capitalism Underdeveloped Black America: A Critical Reasessment
Introduction to the First Edition
Part 1 The Black Majority: The Domestic Periphery
1 The Crisis of the Black Working Class
2 The Black Poor: Highest Stage of Underdevelopment
3 Groundings with My Sisters: Patriarch and the Exploitation of
Black Women
4 Black Prisoners and Punishment in a Racist/Capitalist State
Part 2 The Black Elite: The Domestic Core
5 Black Capitalism: Entrepreneurs, Consumers, and the Historical Evolution
of the Black Market
6 Black Brahmins: The Underdevelopment of Black Political Leadership
7 The Ambiguous Politics of the Black Church
8 The Destruction of Black Education
Part 3 A Question of Genocide
9 The Meaning of Racist Violence in Late Capitalism
10 Conclusion: Towards a Socialist America
Manning Marable
Click here to view Manning Marable's full Author PageManning Marable (May 13, 1950–April 1, 2011) was Director of the Institute for Research in African American Studies at Columbia University. He is one of the most widely read progressive authors in the country. Marable’s political commentary series, “Along the Color Line,” appears in more than 320 publications internationally.
Dr. Marable's work is featured frequently in the national and international media as an expert on the history and politics of race in the United States. He regularly appeared on media programs such as the NBC “Today Show,” ABC “Weekend News,” Fox Network News, the “Charlie Rose” show, BBC television and radio, Japanese television, National Public Radio, and the Pacifica Radio Network. Dr. Marable also donated much of his time fundraising and speaking on behalf of prisoners’ rights, civil rights, labor, faith-based institutions, and many social justice organizations.
His foundational work is How Capitalism Underdeveloped Black America. Robin D.G. Kelley, author of Yo’ Mama’s DisFunktional!, writes, “For those of us who came of political age in the 1980s, Manning Marable’s How Capitalism Underdeveloped Black America was one of our bibles. Published during the cold winter of Reaganism, he introduced a new generation of Black activists/thinkers to class and gender struggles within Black communities, the political economy of incarceration, the limitations of Black capitalism, and the nearly forgotten vision of what a socialist future might look like. Two decades later, Marable’s urgent and hopeful voice is as relevant as ever.”
He is the author of many books, including Black Liberation in Conservative America (South End Press, 1997), Black Leadership (Columbia University Press), Beyond Black and White: Transforming African American Politics (Verso), Speaking Truth to Power: Essays on Race, Resistance, and Radicalism (Westview), and Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention (Viking, April 2011). Visit the book's blog at http://detroitred.tumblr.com/post/4007091044/in-episode-3-malcolm-and-harlem-dr-marable
In 2012, Dr. Marable was awarded the history Pulitzer Prize for Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention.